What news event do you remember...

[imnotthatkindofmum]

Just been talking to my teens about the queen passing. I commented that they will remember this day for the rest of their lives and they asked me what events I remember.

Mine are
Margaret Thatcher resigning! (Teachers we're celebrating)
The Berlin Wall coming down
Chernobyl
Kurt Cobain dying (prob not significant to everyone but was to me!)

What significant news events from your childhood will you never forget?

Not in chronological or magnitude order:

Chernobyl
9/11
7/7 London
Falklands Conflict (I was only 4 and remember my Dad going, he was supposed to be on Atlantic Conveyor, I remember my Mum not knowing if he was safe for several days after).
Zeebrugge
Dunblane
Hungerford
Berlin Wall
Diana
Hillsborough
Lockerbie

and more I expect.

Can I ask a question about this.
I was working a night shift and telly was on.
Was hussein hung live on telly.
Real memory or fake memories?

although 9/11 and 7/7 I was an adult obviously.

The place names of tragedies in the late 1980s and 1990s sticks out in my childhood memories, so:

Hungerford
Zeebrugge
Chernobyl
Lockerbie
Dunblane

Not a cheery list…

Thinking visually the image of the Challenger explosion is the one I remember most clearly.
Plus the twin towers on 9/11 although I was an adult then.

The first thing that popped into my head was George Michael dying on Christmas Day.

Real. It was broadcasted on a news channel on YouTube.

Very vague memories of hearing about Hillsborough
After that:
Murder of James Bulger
Death of Kurt Cobain
Dunblane
Death of Diana

Oh and Lockerbie

Maddie McCann
Diana death
9/11
Something about an mp's mars bar party
Other Diana and fergie stuff

Berlin Wall I remember on tv when I was about 9. That's the age of my dd now so I guess she'll remember the queen quite a lot

Oh yeah dunblane

Aberfan
The night I heard that Peter Sutcliffe had been arrested
Diana

Lockerbie bombing
Challenger space shuttle
Piper Alpha

I think the first 'big' news event that I remember clearly was the Lockerbie bombing - I was nine.

I vividly remember 9/11, as I had not long finished university and had been working as a junior analyst for a financial services firm.

We were all watching it unfold on TV in the main reception and kept getting conflicting messages from management about whether or not we were getting sent home, as at that stage nobody knew if there was a 'carpet' campaign or similar.

I remember
The Aberfan disaster
The moon landing
The move to decimal currency
The Miners' Strike
The Falklands War
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Diana's death
9/11

In my childhood, teen and early adulthood from 1970-1990, I vividly recall:

The 1976 Presidential Election Ford vs Carter
The death of Elvis
The Iran Hostage Crisis (captivity and release)
The death of the Shah of Iran (only because it was my birthday and all over the tv)
The death of John Lennon
The inauguration of Ronald Reagan
The wedding of Charles and Diana
The Challenger Disaster
Black Monday (stock market crash of 1987)
Pan Am flight 103 explosion over Lockerbie
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The death of Ryan White

And Chernobyl

Diana
Take That splitting up (I wasn't a fan I was about 9 and I remember seeing it on the TV as big news!)
9/11
Sarah Payne

Hillsborough (think I was 9)
Fergie & Andrews wedding
Berlin Wall

Earliest memoirs that come to mind
Lord Louis Mcbatten death
Elvis death

Just remembered -
Death of Airey Neave

Death of Ross McWhirter